Re: Of all places
For instance Australia made many firearms illegal and removed them from circulation. And there was a substantial reduction in gun crime and gun related homicidesFor instance Australia made many firearms illegal and removed them from circulation. And there was a substantial reduction in gun crime and gun related homicides.
Meanwhile there was zero impact on total homicides for a decade after they did that. So no, their gun laws didn't make a bit of difference. Unless you're so foolish as to think being stabbed to death is somehow better than being shot that is.
Also meanwhile there are nations out there with far more gun owners per capita (note:owners, not guns, since American gun owners tend to own several guns) than America with much lower gun crime rates and countries with far fewer gun owners per capita with much higher gun crime rates. The problem in America is NOT guns. It's clearly cultural. And to be clear I'm not blaming violent movies or video games or any such stupidity. Somewhere along the line in the last 50 years or so the American people as a whole have forgotten the value of human lives. THAT is our root problem, and it's the same problem that has plagued the Middle East for hundreds or thousands of years. Taking away the guns won't fix that.
If by some miracle you manage to take the guns away - which might actually be politically possible for the first time ever right now - then we'll just start seeing more mass stabbings (which, statistically, are just as deadly, at least from the research I've done on the subject) and bombings.
Gun control in America is, at best, a stop-gap measure and at worst disarming only the law abiding citizens. There is a root cause of the problem that needs to be dealt with and it is demonstrably NOT guns.
That's not to say that gun control is necessarily a bad idea in the short term, but it is absolutely not going to stop the madness on its own.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
